<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="samples" page="books" subpage=""/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: The Book List Stylesheet</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: The Book List Stylesheet"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>The Book List Stylesheet</h1> <p>This is a very simple sample stylesheet to illustrate several Saxon extensions. It uses the XML file <b>books.xml</b> (derived from a file issued originally by Microsoft). You will find this in the samples\data directory. The DTD is in <b>books.dtd</b></p> <p> There is a style sheet <b>books.xsl</b> that can be used to display the data: run this as follows, with the samples directory as the current directory:</p> <p><i>On the Java platform:</i></p> <p class="command"> java net.sf.saxon.Transform data\books.xml styles\books.xsl ><i>output.html</i> <br/> </p> <p><i>On the .NET platform:</i></p> <p class="command"> Transform data\books.xml styles\books.xsl ><i>output.html</i> <br/> </p> <p>This produces an HTML page showing the data. (The output isn't very pretty, if you have time to write an improved version, please send it in).</p> <p>The stylesheet takes a parameter named "top-author". This is the name of the "author of the week", and the default value is "Bonner". To run the stylesheet with a different top author, try adding to the end of the command line:</p> <p class="command"> ..... top-author=Danzig ><i>output.html</i> <br/> </p> <p>It is possible (under those operating systems I know of) to write the author's name in quotes if it contains spaces, e.g. top-author="A. A. Milne".</p> <p>There is another style sheet, books-csv.xsl, which converts the data into a comma-separated-values file.</p> <p>A query that runs with this data is also supplied. The command to use on the Java platform is:</p> <p class="command"> java net.sf.saxon.Query -s:data\books.xml query\books.xq ><i>output.html</i> <br/> </p> <p>The equivalent on .NET is:</p> <p class="command"> Query -s:data\books.xml query\books.xq ><i>output.html</i> <br/> </p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="shakespeare.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>